Petition to Protect Wild Salmon written by Alexandra Morton

Wild salmon are the backbone of the BC Coast. On February 9, 2009
BC Supreme Court ruled that salmon farms are a fishery and a federal responsibility.
The science is in. The feedlot fishery is damaging wild salmon stocks worldwide
(Ford and Myers 2008). Fraser sockeye and all southcoast BC salmon and
steelhead are now at risk as a result of the Provincial policy of allowing the
feedlot fishery to use Canada's most valuable wild salmon habitat .

We the undersigned demand that Fisheries and Oceans Canada
apply the Fisheries Act to this industry and immediately:

%u2212 Place observers during feedlot salmon harvest to assess unlawful by-catch;

%u2212 Examine feedlot salmon as they are cleaned for presence of wild fish in their
   digestive tract;

%u2212 Licence vessels transporting aquaculture salmon like all other commercial
   fishing vessels;

%u2212  As per Pacific Fishery Regulation "Prohibited Fishing
    Methods" ban grow lights on fish feedlots to end wild prey species
    attraction into the pens;

- Remove the marine feedlot industry from wild salmon migration routes.

The landmark BC Supreme Court decision states, %u201CThe inclusion of fisheries in s.
91(12) of the Constitution Act, 1867 was a recognition that fisheries, as a national
resource, require uniformity of the legislation%u201D.

We insist that the Fisheries Act be applied to the salmon feedlot fishery immediately.